Micah Beasley

“Laurie stood casting his long shadow on the room behind him, silent in a grief and wonder too deep for tears, that life was so divided and irreconcilable, and the good so implacably the enemy of the best.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“I tried not to think of all the things I had imagined we would do together — return to our lake next summer, move in together someday.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence.”
― Craig Willse, Providence

“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours